Ok, I'm trying to get vsftpd working on one of my machines - i have a redhat 9 machine running in vmware (so i don't expect it to work like an honest ftp server) but I just want to practice getting this kind of stuff set up.

i have vsftpd installed. I tried to run it as a standalone application (not within xinetd) and when i try to run it that way i get an error

500 OOPS: vsftpd: does not run standalone, must be run from within inetd

I don't understand that to start with.

I did try to get it to run from within xinetd but I dont know exactly what to do so i abandoned that course. every set of instructions or HOWTO pages I see for setting up vsftpd are different and I'm just confused on what the basic set of things i need to do to get this to work are. once i get it working i'm comfortable futzing and changing settings etc.. but i can't get over the hump.

I tried this yesterday on my SUSE machine and no luck there either.

Any help on this one?

I don't really care which ftp server i get up and running - i just found a tutorial for installing proftpd. i got through the configure and make steps. then i started the server and after a simple change to a setting in the basic.conf configuration file it seems to execute but i when run:

ftp localhost or ftp 127.0.0.1

it gives me an error that says connection refused.

Hmmm ....

run proftpd using
and see what the output says

Here's the deal. I'm following the tutorial in the tutorial section of this website

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=17

Here's what I typed and the output i got using the -d 9 -n flags ( I don't have proftp fully installed so i have to give the full path name in the src tree and also identify the config file to use):


/usr/src/proftpd-1.2.10/proftpd -c /usr/src/proftpd-1.2.10/sample-configurations/basic.conf -d 9 -n

- parsing '/usr/src/proftpd-1.2.10/sample-configurations/basic.conf' configuration
- FS: using system open()
- FS: using system read()
- dispatching directive 'ServerName' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'ServerType' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'DefaultServer' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'Port' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'Umask' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'MaxInstances' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'User' to module mod_core
- dispatching auth request "getpwnam" to module mod_auth_file
- dispatching auth request "getpwnam" to module mod_auth_unix
- dispatching directive 'Group' to module mod_core
- dispatching auth request "getgrnam" to module mod_auth_file
- dispatching auth request "getgrnam" to module mod_auth_unix
- FS: using system read()
- dispatching directive 'AllowOverwrite' to module mod_xfer
- dispatching directive '<Limit>' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'DenyAll' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive '</Limit>' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive '<Anonymous>' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'User' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'Group' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'UserAlias' to module mod_auth
- dispatching directive 'MaxClients' to module mod_auth
- dispatching directive 'DisplayLogin' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'DisplayFirstChdir' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive '<Limit>' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive 'DenyAll' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive '</Limit>' to module mod_core
- dispatching directive '</Anonymous>' to module mod_core
- FS: using system read()
- FS: using system close()
redhat -
redhat - Config for ProFTPD Default Installation:
redhat - ~ftp/
redhat - Limit
redhat - DenyAll
redhat - UserName
redhat - GroupName
redhat - UserAlias
redhat - MaxClients
redhat - DisplayLogin
redhat - DisplayFirstChdir
redhat - Umask
redhat - AllowOverwrite
redhat - Limit
redhat - DenyAll
redhat - DefaultServer
redhat - Umask
redhat - UserID
redhat - UserName
redhat - GroupID
redhat - GroupName
redhat - AllowOverwrite
redhat - dispatching auth request "getgroups" to module mod_auth_file
redhat - dispatching auth request "getgroups" to module mod_auth_unix
redhat - SETUP PRIVS at main.c:2733
redhat - ROOT PRIVS at main.c:1967
redhat - RELINQUISH PRIVS at main.c:1974
redhat - ROOT PRIVS at main.c:2322
redhat - opening scoreboard /usr/sbin/var/proftpd/proftpd.scoreboard'nugget-redhat - RELINQUISH PRIVS at main.c:2325
redhat - error opening scoreboard: No such file or directory

bump - any help on deciphering this?